Residents say the blaze appeared to start in an apartment on a lower floor and spread upward rapidly. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the building burning through to "its very core". Forty fire engines rushed to tackle the enormous fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate. This is because Grenfell was designed according to rigorous fire safety standards.

He has blue eyes and brown hair. Rowe is 6'1 and about 180 pounds and goes by the nickname "Whiskey". Dubose is 6'1 and about 140 pounds. He was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and also sentenced to 20 years for two counts of aggravated assault and five years for possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

But in testimony earlier this week, Mattis warned lawmakers that the US isn't winning the war in Afghanistan more than 15 years since USA forces were deployed to oust the country's Taliban leadership after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Capitol Police officers who were injured are in good condition, Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said. 'One of our security detail was shooting back, but it was our pistol versus the shooter's rifle, ' Brooks said. field where the team was practicing, his spokesman told the Sun-Times. Brooks said the Scalise "crawled into the outfield, leaving a trail of blood".

A report in Cumhuriyet newspaper in May 2015 said that trucks, allegedly owned by Turkey's state intelligence service MIT, were found to contain weapons and ammunition when they were stopped and searched in southern Turkey in early 2014. Berberoglu is the first MP from his party, known by the acronym CHP, to be handed prison time. He is now in custody, state-run Anadolu news agency said.

Families were forced to "beg for their lives" as they tried to escape the blaze, while several people are still trapped inside the 27-storey building as it teeters on the brink of collapse. "As I was going down the stairs, there were firefighters, truly awesome firefighters that were actually going upstairs, to the fire, trying to get as many people out of the building as possible", he told the BBC .

Speaking to ABC News , Paul said he was in a batting cage in right field when the first shots rang out. Paul spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper confirmed that neither Paul nor anyone on his staff were injured, although she said everyone is shaken by the event.

During the meet the Saudi King is learnt to have asked Sharif about Islamambad's position on Qatar crisis. The 450 Qatari troops controlled a mountainous border crossing between Eritrea and Djibouti, said Nasredin Ali , a spokesman for Eritrea's biggest armed group, known as the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization .

The event began with a "raj tilak" ceremony followed by cutting of a cake which weighed around 7 kgs. He wrote: "I'd like to invite you all for Birthday Celebration of our beloved Mr. The group also plans to give him a gift: a plane ticket to Russia (the Trump campaign is being investigated for colluding with the Russian government during the U.S.

Later that year in November, just days before the United States election, the Hindu Sena pre-emptively celebrated the Republican Trump's victory over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The group also plans to give him a gift: a plane ticket to Russia (the Trump campaign is being investigated for colluding with the Russian government during the USA presidential election).

Pinkston said the trip was likely part of an effort by North Korea's foreign ministry to ease tensions with Washington. Shortly after this segment aired, news emerged that North Korea was releasing the American, Otto Warmbier . And Yun was dispatched to North Korea and visited Warmbier with two doctors on Monday, and demanded his release. On his first trip to North Korea, Rodman was accompanied by members of the Harlem Globetrotters and a crew from VICE News.

Another witness, who only gave her first name, Hanan, told ABC News that she managed to escape from the building's ninth floor, but she said was anxious about her brother, Abdul Aziz, and his family who were on the 26th floor. "Only in movies you see that sort of thing, not something you forget". "There was somebody up there with a phone shining the light". "There's people, like, throwing their kids out: 'Just save my children, just save my children!'", she said.

Theresa May sought solace in church today as her premiership hung by a thread. Ms Thornberry erupted into laughter and raised her eyebrows in response. In fact, Labour pulled in a respectable vote share and number of seats. The surge in membership comes after the rejection of Theresa May's government.

One senior pro-EU lawmaker who attended a party meeting with May - and who herself opposed Brexit last year - said the prime minister told them she wanted to build a "consensus" on how to pull out of current arrangements with Britain's main trading partner."She recognised the different views in the party on Brexit and she also recognised the need to not just reflect the party but indeed the parliament and the country", the lawmaker said.Ruth Davidson, the influential leader of the ...

Speaking ahead of the Downing Street meeting, the former Prime Minister Sir John Major criticised the plans, claiming it could undermine the " fragile " Northern Irish peace process. Northern Ireland is the only part of the British Isles where same-sex marriage remains outlawed. "Here, with the peace process, we need to be prepared for the unexpected, we need to hope for the best but prepare for the worst".

Sessions told Wyden he "basically recused" himself from the Russian Federation investigation during his first day as attorney general because he "never accessed files, never learned the names of investigators, never met with them, never asked for any documentation".

The fire at Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate in Latimer Road was reported at 01:16 local time. The ambulance service said 50 people had been hospitalised. The smoke stretched for miles (kilometres) across the sky after dawn, revealing the blackened, flame-licked wreckage of the building, which was still burning over 12 hours later.

Hamas accuses the Palestinian Authority of making life hard in order to win political concessions. Hamas has always been accused of using civilians and civilian infrastructure as shields, in violation of global law, to provoke a response from Israel and thereby increase the civilian toll for its own political advantage.

The company claims the console is the first genuine 4K gaming console. Last year, Sony's E3 presentation focused nearly entirely on live and pre-recorded game footage, with none of the business-focused preamble, developer prattle, or hardware-focused side stories that often characterize such press conferences.

As he sits testifying today before the Senate Intelligence Committee - and as Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee fume because he sent a surrogate to testify before them today - Attorney General Jeff Sessions is also quietly working to undo the marijuana policy of 29 states where marijuana use and sales are either about to made broadly legal, are already legal for recreational purposes, or are broadly legal for medicinal purposes.

It said there was only one entry and exit to the tower during improvement works at the block in Latimer Road and it had issues with evacuation procedures. "Many others are receiving medical care", London Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said. Michael Paramasivan, who was in his seventh floor flat with girlfriend Hannah West, 23, and her daughter Thea, five, said: "If we'd listened to them and stayed in the flat we'd have perished".

Mumbai: Reliance Jio has defeated its arch rivals Bharti Airtel , Vodafone and Idea Cellular in terms of adding new customers in a month. On June 9, 2017, ET reported that Reliance Industries had commissioned the last crystallization train of the para-xylene (PX) complex at Jamnagar.

Following Comey's testimony , in which he repeated claims made in a leaked memo that Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn , the odds of Trump facing impeachment over accusations of obstruction of justice rose.

John Major said he had serious doubts about a proposed tie-up the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), which is traditionally associated with the Protestant side of the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland. The Evening Standard , edited by ex-Treasury chief George Osborne, is reporting that Cabinet ministers have initiated talks with Labour lawmakers.

Hodgkinson left his job as a "Home Inspector, Mold/Air Quality Tester", according to the Facebook page . According to the Washington Post , records show his business license expired in November 2016 and was not renewed. The team was taking batting practice when the shooting began. Charles Orear, 50, a restaurant manager from St. Louis, described Hodgkinson as a "quiet guy" who was "very mellow, very reserved" when they stayed overnight at a Sanders supporter's home in Rock Island, Illinois.

Sessions had written a letter to Trump recommending Comey's firing. The appearance before the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday gave Sessions a chance to defend himself, but offered little new insight. I'm confident of that. A friend of the president suggested a day earlier that Trump was considering such an ouster. Sessions told the senators he has confidence in Mueller but said he had "no idea" if Trump did because he had not spoken to the president about the matter.

They do a great job . Had it not been for U.S. Capitol Police officers who were part of a security detail accompanying House Majority Whip Steve Scalise , "everybody would have been killed", Senator Rand Paul told ABC News Wednesday morning.

A source told ABC News that Scalise's injury was not life-threatening. The Congressional Baseball Game, a bipartisan tradition, was scheduled for Thursday, according to Roll Call . Rep. Roger Williams, R-TX, said Zack Barth, a legislative correspondent in his office, was among the people who were shot, but he is expected to make a full recovery.

In a statement, Commander Stuart Cundy of the Metropolitan Police said , "I can confirm there have been a number of fatalities and others receiving medical care". "If we had stayed in that flat, we would've perished". My gut instinct told me just to get the girls out. Witnesses who posted images on social media said that all the block's floors were filled with flames.

He acknowledged being at the event and said he had conversations with people there but did not remember any conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak . "That responsibility lies with the attorney general of the United States", said Leahy, D-Vermont. He said there is no problem with a president speaking to an Federal Bureau of Investigation director.

The Prime Minister called what she thought would be a Brexit-focused election, but the issue was quickly overshadowed by security as two deadly terror attacks, in Manchester and London , struck during the campaign period. "People have said they have had quite enough of austerity politics", he said, repeating his campaign promises to push for better funding for health and education.

Qatar has kept shipments moving thanks to measures such as changing shipping routes to operate via Oman instead of the United Arab Emirates . "There is absolutely no military component to anything that we are doing", Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba told reporters in Washington.

The shirts are listed on Dolce and Gabbana's website alongside a short film of Italian protesters wearing the shirts during a demonstration against the company. Criticism of Dolce & Gabbana's enthusiastic support of Ms. Trump reached a fever pitch in May , when she wore a $51,500 Dolce & Gabbana jacket at the annual G-7 summit in Catania, Italy.

It is not known how fruitful the talks were, but sources close to Mr Barnier have told Sky News that the two sides have agreed to have further contact at later this week. May said Brexit talks would begin on June 19 as scheduled, though the election result meant it was unclear whether her plan to take Britain out of the bloc's single market and customs union could still be pursued.

The Labour leader also asserted his party's position of "absolutely remain [ing] members of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights". "Two percentage points makes a big difference, I am a man of my word, so what I am going to do is just sit here and eat my book, while you guys carry on", he said as he began eating pages of his book, the report said.

In his opening remarks, Sessions cited Justice Department's "longstanding policy" and insisted it was his duty to "protect confidential communications with the President". Sessions also refused to answer whether any Justice Department officials had discussed possible presidential pardons of individuals being looked at in the Russian investigations.

We were able to get them a year ago, they went on and got one of the best players this league has ever seen. After dropping last year's title to Cleveland making the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history from a 3-1 deficit, the Warriors vowed not to stumble again.

Apart from Sony , Microsoft and Bioware were also companies that unveiled their latest products. God of War takes its subject directly from the Norse mythology while developing it a little bit to suit the actions of the game. Upcoming games include first-party titles " Gran Turismo Sport " and " Uncharted: The Lost Legacy " and third-party games like " Destiny 2 " and " Call of Duty: WWII " from Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and " Star Wars Battlefront 2" from Electronic Arts (EA).

The defence seized on inconsistencies in the version of events Ms Constand gave when she went first went to police, and statements she made later on: She said the assault took place in March 2004, after dinner at a restaurant, then said it occurred earlier, unconnected to the restaurant outing; she said it was the first time she had been alone with Mr Cosby in his home, then said it was the third time, and that she had rebuffed his sexual advances the first two times; she said she had ...

This standalone spin-off game is looking just as awesome as any of the main titles in the series. Sony did not leave out demonstrating the inclusion of virtual reality (VR ) in some of the games played on PlayStation . God of War was revealed at last year's E3 event and this year shows even more awesome gameplay. It also seemed to have some stealth elements in it which isn't done enough in the Spider-Man games.

The former Republican U.S. senator from Alabama, one of Trump's most avid supporters on the campaign trail, will likely have to explain why he told lawmakers in January he had no dealings with Kremlin officials a year ago. Sen. Mark Warner, D., Va., asked the attorney general if he had confidence in former FBI Director Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel to probe whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian Federation.

In his depositions, Cosby said the pills were Benadryl, a common allergy drug whose side effects can include drowsiness, and maintained the subsequent sexual encounter was consensual. She did not stop me". Cosby's lawyer has said the two were lovers sharing a consensual sexual encounter. Jurors wanted the testimony of Detective Dave Mason read back to them Tuesday .